This is a thermographic video of a Morpho butterfly structure in response to heat pulses produced by breathing onto the whole butterfly structure (video part 1) and onto its localized areas (video part 2).

Nanostructures on Morpho butterfly wings coated with carbon nanotubes can sense temperature chances down to 0.02 ° C, at a response rate of 1/40 of a second. This is a demonstration of how new bio-inspired designs by GE scientists could enable more advanced applications for industrial inspection, medical diagnostics and military.

This video was filmed by Bryan Whalen in the Electronics Cooling Lab at GE Global Research.